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Smart Camden Inn

London (Camden), Greater London, England
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Adresse
55/57 Bayham Street, London (Camden)   Plan
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Vous trouverez sur place

  • Petit déjeuner
  • Une cuisine
  • Des casiers
  • Eau chaude gratuite 24h/24
  • Machine à laver
  • Un salon / Espace commun
  • Echange de devises
  • Information de voyages disponibles
  • Téléphone (public ou dans la chambre)
 
Avis de Hostelz.com
Smart Camden Inn is halfway between the Mornington Crescent and Camden Town tube stations. During the weekends, Camden Town station gets very busy and is probably best avoided, but if you’re staying in Camden then business is all part of the experience.

One gripe is that it operates a fairly arbitrary pricing policy. Those who turn up on the day pay a fixed rate per night whereas those who book in advance can pay less or more than the fixed price. There is also a deposit for the key, which is also a deposit to ensure that you checkout on leaving day by 10 a.m. -– something which is easier said than done after a night out on the tiles in North London.

The staff can be very laid back -– checking in is very easy, even if you arrive a little earlier than expected, although they can also be strict about their rules. When they say breakfast finishes at 9 a.m., they mean it. They will come around and kick you out (while having a friendly chat at the same time of course).

The rooms are small and not well ventilated. The building as a whole is in a good state of repair. Although cleaners are seen walking around all the time it does not seem that they do much cleaning. The walls are thin, so noise travels through quite easily and can mean it is extraordinarily difficult to get a good night’s sleep. The beds are all bunkbeds and the mattresses are a little tatty and thin. There’s one toilet on each floor and three showers – unfortunately with not a lot of hot water after about 8:30 am. Breakfast is included but entails self-serve cornflakes and toast and unpredictable coffee.

The hostel is in a good location with easy access to the wonderful Camden Markets but is letdown when the staff get a little officious. While it is not possible to categorise this as a party hostel, the clientele who stay are party hostellers who tend to stay out late and make a lot of noise when they return in the early hours of the morning. For all its faults, Smart Inn is still ok. If you’re spending time in north London it makes sense to stay in north London rather than catch the tube from more central areas.

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Comment by Alex, Australia
August 2007
Shocking hostel but chocie is limited in camden
Everything aspect of this hostel is focused on minimising cost and maximising profit. When in the shower one must constantly press a button to keep the water flowing, this is undoubtedly designed to minimise the amount of time people spend in the shower. They also cut costs on cleaning, kitchen equipment. They charge extra for everything, internet an incredible 50p for fifteen minutes, washing around £4.50, lockers is rooms £1.50/night, and the one that really pissed me off, increasing the price between the time and booked and arrived. (nice people hey!?). but still I stayed for two weeks because all the other hostels in London are in the the west, which has no character. To find character and young people one must go to north or east london and unfortunately choice is limited in these areas. Those of us who love camden will just have to put up and shut up. sometimes one has to sacrifice principle for expedience.
Comment by Edgar, UK
April 2007
This place was appalling. The staff was rude. The rooms were dirty and the bed linen had stains on them. You could smell the toilets in the corridor. I am ashamed that this is a British establishment. Do not use this hostel.
Comment by axular, Basque
April 2007
we were a large group (about forty people) and the showers were only three. The staff person was so unhelpful, and he asked some girls about her names, about her old, where did they live, where they were calling. He also tried to establish a relation with one of the girls. He didn't want to give us the money we let (L100). He said we have broken some things, and it wasn't true. Finally, he was always coming us saying we were making noise, and noise was being made by other people in the hostel. Oh, and the breakfast was so bad, so poor.
Comment by CARL
March 2007
I don't think this hostel is anywhere near as bad as some people have said. It was reasonable for the price and was kept pretty clean.The staff were quite friendly and the people staying were a pretty good crowd. The breakfast was ok too although I never tried the Jam! There were a few problems though. The showers were too few and there was an ongoing problem with the door entry swipe cards which often decided not to work, especially bad when you are on the top floor! The internet computers were rubbish too. Overall this is not a bad hostel at all and you can do a lot worse!
Comment by Gufv
October 2006
I'm not so experienced at backpacker-hostels but my visit at this hostel were everything but nice. when i arrived, the assistant argued with a customer, and i stood in queue for fifteen to twenty minutes. he couldn't find my booking from the internet, and i showed him the mail at the computer (during that, he took another customer, and two phone calls, making me wait ten minutes more). but he didn't accept the mail either, so i had to make a new reservation. lucky enough they didn't charge my visa-card twice. apart from this, let's say not so good experience, the bed in my room weren't cleaned from sheets and blankets, so I went down and reported it, the assistant promised to fix it before late evening but of course he didn't do that, so I cleaned it myself. the corridor stank from the toilet that worked half of the times you flushed, and the breakfast in the morning were so cheap and disgusting that I chose to buy another one in a cafeteria nearby. the most boring about this hostel though, is the assistants. I met all of them (three i think) and everyone had the same cheeky attitude at every customer. I am not choosing this hostel again.
Comment by Tessel and Floor
August 2006
We think this hostel is nice. It's not as dirty as some say, the staff is really friendly, the showers were warm enough and there was no queue (at the time we got there as least). No, it's not a five-star hotel, but that's also not what you paid for. For this amount of money the quality is worth it.
Comment by david the german
May 2006
well, when we arrived we werent allowed to check in at the time we had chosen on their website and had to bum around in camden from six a.m. to eleven a.m., which would have been fine without the subarctic conditions, and the rude obnoxious manner of the staff who greeted us there. then when we checked in, we had to pay another deposit that we hadnt been told about. when we finally got to our room equiped with blankets containing i would guess more germs than the average yakult pot (but these werent the good variety), we were missing pillows. apart from this the rooms were pretty unremarkable, but with a nice view of a dead pigeon. there was no curfew, but be prepared for dirty looks if you arrive back after bedtime! breakfast was free, but served only till nine a.m. and so we had no time for this, as getting showered proved to need some kind of military organisation. Three showers for i would guess around twenty-five people. to call them showers is perhaps being a little overgenerous, a pipette full of water would have been more effective, unless of course you stand the other side of the shower curtain, in which case you get hit by a torrent of piss warm water. we finally checked out, glad to have gotten away relatively unscathed by this horrific experience.
Comment by Dag Kavlie
March 2006
Dishonest. They charged me about 100 extra pounds of my credit card somehow. I didn't discover it until I had left the country.
Comment by Sue
July 2005
I can only recommend you choose another hostel. Staff are really, really awful. The kitchen was so dirty that I was not in the mood to finish my meal there. There was one shower and toilet for more than 10 people, men and women, and the shower did not work!!! We had to use the tap.
Comment by pabloq
January 2005
Staff are rude, unhelpful and crooked. Dorms stuffy and cramped. Showers awful! Nothing going for it, sorry! I'm ashamed to be english, seeing that backpackers from all over the world get this poor service too.
Comment by Anonymous
August 2004
Hmmm, aside from the fact that someone got ahold of my credit card number and charged about 300+ Pounds to it, it was ok. Not to say it was the staff, but they were the only ones with the number other than myself.
Comment by Nick
July 2004
It's pretty standard as far as London hostels go. This one includes cardboard toast, chemical jam and plastic cornflakes for breakfast. There's nowhere to sit at breakfast because of gross overcrowding in the teensy kitchen. But the hostel is safe and clean-ish.
Comment by Anonymous
July 2004
Good location in Camden, not too far from the tube station. There were too few showers, though; there was always a queue when I stayed there. The breakfast featured the cheapest and worst jam possible, but there was warm toast and tea. The beds had strange plastic matresses, but otherwise the rooms were ok. This was not a great hostel, but I have not found an affordable one in London yet...
Comment by Lasse Bech
June 2004
This hostel is okay. Don't expect anything, though. Breakfast is corn flakes and toast, nothing else. You have to pay £1.50 per day for your locker, which is mentioned nowhere. The showers aren't, as they are in many other places, lacking in cold water; actually, it is the opposite. I almost burned myself in them. And you can't turn down the temperature. Remember to bring some kitchen stuff, like disposable plates and cutlery, as the kitchen is very poorly equipped.
Comment by Anonymous
June 2004
This has without a doubt been the worst hostel I have ever encountered. Filthy rooms and toilets, extremely rude staff, the list goes on. Avoid it!

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